America, we knew we had issues. It's like the honeymoon period after Obama has come crashing down, and we're in the 7-year slump in our marriage to each other as a country. It's going to be hard. We're hurt, wounded, and very divided. But we need to listen to one another now.

Olympic story after story after story tells us the importance of each practice, each race, each match, each sacrifice to get each Olympian to their competition! And the same is true of our spiritual life.